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Summary: Fun and Sophisticated
Review: A quick-paced mystery about the misadventures of an arrogant US Trade Representative (high level bureaucrat) that assumes an intelligent reader. I read it while I was actually working with the USTR on a tariff issue.
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Summary: Fun and Sophisticated
Review: A quick-paced mystery about the misadventures of an arrogant US Trade Representative (high level bureaucrat) that assumes an intelligent reader. I read it while I was actually working with the USTR on a tariff issue.
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Summary: The evil side of Washington, DC
Review: Another winner from Sabin Willett. Great writing, great characters, great storyline. You want Louisa to succeed all the way in her quest to prove her innocence. This book will give you a great background on the TRUE inside Washington politics and make you wonder if things like this actually do happen. Something tells me that it does. This is a great weekend on the beach read with a pitcher of Long Island Iced Teas...get lost in this book!
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Summary: The evil side of Washington, DC
Review: Another winner from Sabin Willett. Great writing, great characters, great storyline. You want Louisa to succeed all the way in her quest to prove her innocence. This book will give you a great background on the TRUE inside Washington politics and make you wonder if things like this actually do happen. Something tells me that it does. This is a great weekend on the beach read with a pitcher of Long Island Iced Teas...get lost in this book!
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Summary: Reminiscent of Steve Martini's The List (which I also liked)
Review: Despite my best efforts to get involved with the characters and action of this book, I finally had to put it down somewhere around page 48. The best description for this book is TEDIOUS. It does not help that this book is written in the present tense, which makes the plot ridiculously seem as though every single point of the book is happening now, right this very minute. Best avoided.
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Summary: exciting plot and wonderful characters (even the evil ones)
Review: I could not put the book down. It's a great summer read, and more, as it explores character at a depth often lacking in a thriller. The added bonus is Willett's humor, which snakes its way into some unlikely places.
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Summary: Had me casting the movie!
Review: I read (and forgot I had) THE DEAL last year. This new one by Willett is far better. One way I judge whether a book is worthy is if I am "casting" the movie as I read it. This one prompted me to do so and I had fun doing it. It was a long day (and 1/2 actually) read; couldn't really put it down!
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Summary: Politics as we fear it is or may become. Thrilling!
Review: I was impressed by Sabin Willett's first effort, The Deal, and awaited his next book very impatiently. The Betrayal more than satisfied. I love his plot, reality can be suspended when it can be believed possible. The way he fleshes out his characters makes them visible in your mind. You like the 'good guys' and you feel the evil of the bad ones. I loved the child, Isabel. It is so refreshing to read of a 12 year old who has good manners, grammar and a large vocabulary. The way she uses "like" keeps her within the limits of her age! Our Renoir lady, heroine, grows stronger, wiser and more confident as we read of her travails. I read The Betrayal as slowly and deliberately as possible, though the temptation to rush was compelling. It is a book to savor, which I did. Well done, Sabin. Hopefully, you have another book in progress.
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Summary: Very Entertaining
Review: Kept me on edge all the way to the last sentence. Very good! Could not put it down, stayed up all night reading it.
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Summary: A pulsating trip for the reader
Review: Other reviewers have indicated that this book invites a willing suspension of belief, and I echo that sentiment. At times I felt that the suspension was a bit much to ask for and even less to justify which is what, except for one other aspect of the authors writing style, cost it one star in my rating. The story starts a bit slowly and confusingly, but you are soon drawn into the dilemna that confronts the heroine and her 12 year old daughter. What starts as a puzzlement (why didn't I know I had 60 million dollars in a foriegn bank account) soon turns dangerous and deadly. Someone involved with the government of the United States is using Louisa as a pawn and that person has lots of people willing to kill anyone that is a threat to them. Uncovering who the enemy is takes most of the novel and involves numerous well drawn characters, some whom you love to love and others that you love to hate. Sabin Willet has developed a writing style in this book that first takes you through an episode from the perspective of a viewer and then follows with the same episode from the point of view of one of the participants in the episode. I found this style initially confusing and eventually time wasting . The ending that Willet devises makes the trk there worth the effort. It is well worth reading and I shall look forward to his next effort.
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